Promoting Indonesian Batik as a Symbol of National Identity: A Bibliometric Approach

Indonesia has gone through a long journey to fight claims with other nations so that batik is acknowledged as its cultural heritage. The purpose of this study is to investigate the evolution of batik over time through bibliometric analysis to generate recommendations for promoting batik as a representation of national identity. A total of 1480 documents from the Scopus database were examined, originating from 563 different sources, including journals, conference papers, book chapters, and so on. The findings indicate that there has been a 16,89% annual growth rate in this field of research. The average age of the documents is 3,99% years, suggesting that the materials are new and relevant to current developments. Each study was cited 4,592 times with 38100 references, which proposes that although the citation rate may not be particularly high, the academic interest in this field is steadily increasing. Since a wealth of knowledge is gathered from scholars around the globe, this study might be extremely helpful in the future of the development of batik promotion. Thus, the results of this study are expected to have implications for national sovereignty and the accomplishment of global sustain ability goals.